Course

MICRO-562: Experimental biomicroscopy

Summary

By combining hands-on and theoretical training, this course introduces commonly used optical microscopy techniques. The lab training takes place in BIOP Core Facility and provides access to use microscopes and image biological samples. Theoretical part covers their basic operation principles.

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Hatice Altug

2020-current Full Professor at the Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland2013-2020 Associate Professor (with tenure) at the Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL, Switzerland 2013 Associate Professor (with tenure) at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Boston University, USA 2007-2013 Assistant Professor (tenure-track) at Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of Boston University, USA 2007 Post-doctoral Fellow at Center for Engineering in Medicine of Harvard Medical School, USA 2000-2007 PhD. in Applied Physics at Stanford University, USA 1996-2000 B.S. in Physics at Bilkent University, Turkey

Arne Seitz

04/1996-06/2000 Scientific co-worker at Philipps-University of Marburg, Dep. of Physical Chemistry 07/2000-10/2002 Post Doc at Max-Planck Unit for Structural Molecular Biology in Hamburg 11/2002-11/2005 Post Doc at European Molecular Biolohy Laboratory (EMBL), Cell Biology and Cell Biophysics Programme 11/2005-03/2009 Staff Scientist at Advanced Light Microscopy Facility, EMBL 04/2009- Head of Bioimaging and Optics platforme (BIOP), Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/experimental-biomicroscopy-MICRO-562

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/MICRO-562

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Summary

Lectures

Instructors (2)

Hatice Altug

Arne Seitz

Official source

https://edu.epfl.ch/coursebook/en/experimental-biomicroscopy-MICRO-562

Moodle Page

http://go.epfl.ch/MICRO-562

Lectures in this course (18)

Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy

Explains Total Internal Reflection Fluorescence Microscopy, evanescent waves, and Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching method.

Confocal Microscopy: Principles and Applications

Explores the principles and applications of confocal microscopy, emphasizing the elimination of out-of-focus fluorescence for superior images.

Confocal Microscopy: Imaging Techniques and Applications

Explores the principles and applications of confocal microscopy, emphasizing advantages in imaging techniques and quality factors.

Super Resolution Microscopy: PALM and STORM

Explores super resolution microscopy techniques PALM and STORM, emphasizing single molecule localization microscopy and its applications.

Super-Resolution Microscopy: Localization and Resolution

Explains super-resolution microscopy principles and the importance of molecule density for resolution.

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